There's something magical about a children's book that keeps pulling you back, no matter how many years pass. Maybe it's the ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

In a world full of distractions, it can be challenging to find the time to escape into literature, but it is never too late to get back to reading. The top of the new year is the perfect time to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dear Eric: A group of seven elders — men and women, ages 60 to 90 — have gotten together once a week to play poker at my unit in our condo building for ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the new year begins, novelists send characters to great heights in Tibet and Wyoming, to the great depths of ...

Dear Eric: A group of seven elders – men and women, ages 60 to 90 – have gotten together once a week to play poker at my unit in our condo building for almost two years. As my husband and I are the ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Political memoirs tend to fall into recognizable categories. There is the sanitized precampaign memoir, gauzy life stories mixed with vague policy projects and odes to American goodness. There is the ...

Eric Trump spoke about his new book and the 2020 presidential election at a Dec. 9 event at the Palm House hotel in Palm Beach. The program was hosted by Palm Beach-based The Right Book Club and ...

Dear Eric: I recently reconnected with a man on a dating app who previously “ghosted” me. We’d been chatting months ago and had a good connection. We’re both single parents in our 40s, so we had a lot ...

It is tricky enough to find books for children you know well. If you haven’t seen the child in ages, or you have lost track of his or her interests (or never knew them in the first place), it may be ...

I have a toddler at home now who can't get enough books, and these sales are always an excuse for me to buy more for him. There are a ton of Dr. Seuss classics in here, including How the Grinch Stole ...